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CANCUN, Mexico — The standing-room-only crowd in the lobby bar at the Fiesta Americana all-inclusive resort were enthralled by the Michael Jackson impersonator dancing on top of the bar after dinner.
The tourists – most of them Americans – danced and shot smartphone videos of the white-gloved performer belting out “Billie Jean’’ and “Thriller” while they sipped margaritas, martinis, piña coladas and other free drinks.
It was the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus crisis being declared a pandemic. In the U.S., President Joe Biden was delivering his first prime-time address, somberly recounting COVID’s toll but offering hope of a return to some normalcy by July 4th.
The big-screen TV covering a wall in the bar wasn’t turned to the news. For these and throngs of other visitors to Cancun this month – or in February in the case of Sen. Ted Cruz – normalcy returned by spring break.
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